Palliative Care Physician

Job Description:

The Division of General Medicine, Section of Palliative Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is recruiting a board-certified/board eligible Hospice Palliative Medicine (HPM) physician for a 1.0 FTE to join our growing palliative care program.  The interdisciplinary program includes physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and chaplains.  The team works closely with Hematology-Oncology, Advanced Heart Failure program, Hospital Medicine, the Internal Medicine residency, and the Pain Service in providing clinical care as well as education. The BIDMC palliative care service is a well-established program with a recently integrated palliative care consultation within the inpatient solid tumor service.  The consultation service has been providing clinical care and bedside education to medical house staff for over 10 years.  In 2013, the service opened an ambulatory palliative care practice.  In conjunction with the Boston Veterans’ Administration Hospital and Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, BIDMC hosts a HPM fellowship.

The selected candidate’s clinical effort would be primarily joining the inpatient palliative care consultation team and if interested, up to 20% clinical effort as a palliative care clinic physician, providing clinical care in both settings to patients referred for complex symptom management, challenges in coping and facilitation of decision-making in the setting of serious illness.  In addition to bedside teaching to referring teams, the role of clinician-educator would include didactic education for HPM fellows, Internal Medicine house staff, anesthesia pain fellows, and other trainees who rotate with the palliative care service.  There are opportunities to participate in or lead quality improvement projects, develop educational interventions, and collaborate with the Section of General Medicine Research.  In addition to clinical duties, this clinician-educator will be encouraged to take on administrative or educational leadership responsibilities within the Section and demonstrate a record of scholarly activity, as documented through invited lectures, curriculum development, or publications.  The Section will provide mentorship to facilitate the candidate in formulating and meeting these goals.

A Harvard appointment will be offered commensurate with academic qualifications. The qualified candidate will possess broad clinical knowledge, experience in palliative care, excellent interpersonal communication skills, and a passion for interdisciplinary team collaboration in expanding palliative care activities throughout the institution. This role is an employment model position in the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (HMFP).

Requirements:

Board-eligible/certified in internal medicine and palliative care; Massachusetts state licensure (or ability to obtain prior to start date); Federal DEA; Massachusetts Controlled Substance Certificate.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 743-bed hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, is a founding member of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH).  BILH, a health care system with 14 hospitals, brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, and more than 4,000 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) is one of the largest physician organizations in New England, dedicated to excellence and innovation in patient care, education, and research. As a physician-led organization, HMFP partners with more than 2,400 providers to support the delivery of exceptional care, promote professional development and foster balance at work and home. HMFP physicians have faculty affiliations with Harvard Medical School (HMS) and provide care throughout BILH system and additional hospitals across Massachusetts.

Pay Range:

$185,000 - $250,000

The base pay range reflects what Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this role at the time of posting and may be modified from time to time. Actual compensation within this range may be determined based on several factors, including academic appointment, work experience, specialty training, geography of work location, anticipated productivity, FTE basis, and role expectations. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for performance-based incentives, which may include bonuses for productivity and quality HMFP also offers a comprehensive and generous employee benefits program to eligible employees, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement plan(s) with employer contributions.